Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some faculty members probably are, few will ever be able to organize openly against the President of Yale University. And if the Griswold report is to be defeated, it will take an outspoken group of respected professors to organize a movement. In the meantime, professors are reluctant to commit themselves; they would prefer to find out exactly which way opinion is going...
...Istanbul's waterfront and was about to board ship for Marseille when the political police grabbed her. On her person the cops found three monthly reports of clandestine Communist operations (Communism has long been barred in Russia-hating Turkey) and other incriminating documents. Sevim confessed, then tried to commit suicide...
Desperate Moment (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) tries to do for West Berlin what The Third Man did so successfully for Vienna. Refugee Dirk Bogarde has confessed to a murder he did not commit because he thinks he has nothing left to live for. But as soon as he begins serving his life term, his long-lost girl friend (Mai Zetterling) turns up. Breaking out of jail to clear his name, Bogarde is hounded through the rubble-strewn ruins by the police and matches wits with skulking black-marketeers. The film fails because its events are too predictable for suspense...
Furthermore, critics point out, the statistical yardstick may be technically accurate but misleading: if 50% of U.S. husbands commit adultery at some time in their lives, this does not mean that 50% of them are habitual adulterers - many may slip only once, or only during a long absence from home (e.g., on military service overseas...
When Kinsey's first volume appeared sermons, editorials and dinner conversation warned that it might encourage the practices which it described as widespread, e.g., a husband hesitating on the brink of adultery might be encouraged by hearing that 50% of all U.S. men do commit adultery. How well-grounded this fear may be is still far from clear. So far, there is concrete evidence that the Kinsey book has had any such effect, and studies at colleges have shown post-Kinsey youth to be no different from the pre-Kinsey group. Court records show no increase in sex offenses...